Lost & Found: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0147517737 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns. United at this fateful moment with two octogenarians seekers, she embarks with them upon a road trip to find Millie's mother. The #1 international bestselling debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens along the wayMillie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.
Brooke Davis grew up in rural Australia, has lived in Halifax, Canada, and Florida, USA, and now lives in Perth, Australia, where she works as a bookseller. In 2015, Lost & Found won the iBooks Fiction Book of the Year and two Australian Book Industry Awards; Fiction Book of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer. . Lost & Found is her first novel and will be published in twenty-seven countries
elizabeth conley said Brooke Davis brought the characters to life as the grapple. Brooke Davis brought the characters to life as the grapple with loss,grief, and how to go on living.Sometimes poignant and humorous each personlearns to cope and rely on each other in unusual situations.. Travels with a Little Girl, a Cranky Old Lady, a Rest Home Escapee, and a Mannequin Millie Bird is not having a good day. Her mother, distraught over her husband's/Millie's father's death, stashes Millie in a department store, under rack of undergarments for oversized women, with instructions to wait. So MiIllie waits and waits and waits. But Millie is a resilient type; she is less concerned with being abandoned than she is with following her mother's instructions, so whenever she ventures out of her waiting/hiding place, she leaves a note pinned to the unmentionables, as she explores her microcosm world.M. Could not finish--characters were too quirky and the plot too unbelievable REVIEWED BY LAURA (originally published on Kindles & Wine book blog)First of all, I should say that this book has been getting a lot of positive reviews. So a lot of people really, really like it. I read somewhere that it was an "international sensation." And on paper, this sounds like the perfect book for me. I generally really like books with quirky characters that go on journeys of self-discovery (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel, for example).However, in this book, the quirky characters were justtoo quirky
Praise for Lost & Found“Enchanting debut.” --Vanity Fair“A whimsical and touching debut and an “ultimately powerful exploration of grief from a skillful and original new voice.” —Kirkus, starred review“The same feel-good word of mouth as last year’s bestseller, The Rosie Project.” —The Sydney Morning Herald “A novel that dances on the wire between heartache and joy, a delight to the reader in its explorations.” —Yahoo News “Everything about the characters and the writing feels right, and the result is a book that’s heartbreaking, funny and brilliant.”—Courier Mail“Lost & Found is informed by Davis’s personal heartache but it is buoyed by something more universal – our need to love and be loved, regardless of the risk.” —Newcastle Herald“If at first the reasons why this tale of love and loss, grief and great mates sparked a bidding war among publishers aren’t obvious, as the characters unfold, it becomes clear that this is storytelling at its purest.” —Weekend Post